Word: jemison
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...rhetoric and the reaction. In September 1982, after a reign of 29 years, the Rev. Joseph H. Jackson had been deposed as president of N.B.C.U.S.A. Jackson's long rule was criticized last week by the man who replaced him in office: the Rev. T.J. (for Theodore Judson) Jemison, 63, who also told the gathering, "We must permit our convention to become program-centered rather than personality-centered. We must be ready to step aside and let others take our place." Jemison went on to thunder, "When you're leading people, you can't lead without civil rights...
Jackson was elected president of N.B.C.U.S.A. in 1953, succeeding Jemison's blind and aged father D.V. Jemison, a pastor in Mobile, Ala. As the civil rights revolution began, Jackson hailed the use of lawsuits, but he steadfastly opposed mass protests and the civil disobedience campaigns favored by King and his followers. Jackson's critics say that he envied King's growing fame; his sympathizers say that he was morally offended by disobedience to the law. As Jackson complained in 1982, in what turned out to be his last presidential address, "Many of our young people have been...
...dispute between King and Jackson was an awkward one for T.J. Jemison. As Coretta King informed the roaring crowd in Los Angeles last week, her late husband had sought Jemison's counsel before launching the famous Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and with good reason Two and a half years earlier, Jemison, as the young pastor of Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La., had organized the nation's first bus boycott. His campaign forced the city to integrate seating in its transportation system in just eight days...
...Jemison also had ties with Jackson. In 1953, when Jackson was elected president, Jemison had been chosen general secretary, and year after year the two were re-elected in tandem. Privately, Jemison was not happy with the group's aloof stance toward the civil rights movement. "It was very difficult," he admitted last week. "I sat through it out of loyalty to the leadership. All I could do then was sit and cry within." Jemison, whose dying father had told him that "God would pass the leadership of the convention to me," bided his time, waiting for Jackson...
...title is obviously symbolic, but it is also quite literal, the name of the auto-salvage company run by a race driver Al Shaw (Bruno Lawrence, a strong actor who also worked on the script). His wife Jacqui (Anna Jemison) and his daughter Georgie (Greer Robson, a child of uncommon appeal) must attempt to create their small domestic civilization among the rusting reminders of the larger civilization's discontents. When Jacqui cannot get Al to stop tinkering with his cars, she starts tinkering with his best friend. One cannot help sympathizing with her; it is clear that...